Polish minister says looking for solutions to constitutional row


  • World
  • Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo meets with Frans Timmermans, deputy head of the European Commission at the Prime Minister Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland May 24, 2016. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

WARSAW (Reuters) - A senior member of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) signalled on Wednesday it was ready to give some ground to end a constitutional standoff with the EU, though his leader kept up his invective against Europe in the local press.

The right-wing, eurosceptic government has been caught up in an unprecedented row with Brussels institutions over changes it made to Poland's constitutional court that critics say weakened the tribunal.

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